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TURN FOUR AFTER DARK: Haunted, Hounded, and Slightly On Fire

A Humorous Supernatural Series – Book Ten

Nothing at Fox Run Speedway starts with a warning.
Some nights begin with noise. Others begin with fog.
This one begins with sparks—right after sunset—and absolutely refuses to behave.

Fire breaks out where it shouldn’t. Sirens arrive loudly and...

WHEN THE COUNTY FAIR COMES TO CRESTON, NOTHING STAYS CONTAINED
The county fair was supposed to be temporary.
The consequences were not.

When bright lights, generators, rides, and crowds roll into Creston, North Carolina, they set up far too close to a track that already refuses to behave. What begins as harmless excitement quickly becomes a...

THE DEAD STILL THINK THEY CAN WIN
Book Twelve in the Turn Four After Dark Series

Some arguments don’t end when the race is over.
Some don’t end when everyone involved is dead.

At Turn Four, competition resurfaces where it was never truly buried. Old grudges crawl back into the light with fresh confidence and absolutely no interest in resolution....

When the haunting stopped being about fear, everything else followed.

It began quietly, the way the worst ideas always do. Someone brought snacks. Someone else made a deal. No one thought it mattered. Haunting had rules, after all—old ones, respected ones, rules that had survived ghosts, grudges, and midnight for longer than anyone could...

When Pit Road stopped taking orders, everyone assumed it was temporary.

They were wrong.

In Turn Four After Dark: Pit Road Unionized Overnight, the track doesn’t just misbehave—it reorganizes. Tools refuse to cooperate unless they’re treated with respect. Engines enforce boundaries with mechanical certainty. Schedules lose all authority....

TURN FOUR AFTER DARK
BOOK FIFTEEN: THE CRITTERS CLAIMED EMINENT DOMAIN
Property lines move without paperwork.

No permits. No hearings. No appeals.

One night, the land simply decides it no longer belongs to the people standing on it.

Parking lots become contested territory overnight, their painted lines meaningless by dawn. Spaces that were safe for...

THE RACE ENDS.
THE FOG DOES NOT.

The checkered flag waves. Engines cool. Crews begin to pack up.

And then the fog stays.

At Fox Run Speedway, visibility becomes optional and movement feels watched. The track does not reset the way it should. Engines hesitate without explanation. Pit Road reacts to tone instead of action, responding defensively when...

Turn Four After Dark: The Track Refused to Be Cleansed
BOOK SEVENTEEN

They came to fix it.

They brought confidence, credentials, equipment, and sacred assurances. They arrived with practiced smiles and professional certainty, convinced the track was simply another problem waiting to be solved. Another site to be corrected, neutralized, restored,...

Turn Four After Dark: Engines Remember Everything
(Book Eighteen)

What if the machine isn’t broken?
What if it remembers?

At Fox Run Speedway, engines have always roared, ghosts have always lingered, and Pit Road has always had opinions. But this time, something changes. Repairs stop solving problems. Apologies stop working. Midnight stops...

The Dead Are No Longer Knocking.

They’re Filing.

Paperwork appears where it shouldn’t.

Lap counts are disputed with alarming intensity. Rulebooks are misquoted aggressively. Meetings drag into the night and resolve absolutely nothing. Pit Road rejects jurisdiction entirely. The track ignores appeals.

Midnight adjourns nothing.

What begins as a...

Midnight Declared Independence
Turn Four After Dark – Book Twenty

The flags were tired.

For twenty books, Fox Run Speedway has survived ghosts, territorial critters, haunted engines, and midnight authority. But on the final night of the season, something shifts in a way no one expected.

The drivers stop listening.

The new rules are stricter than...

BOOK ONE begins a 24-book, 24-year mystery saga filled with atmospheric suspense, emotional depth, and the chilling realism of rural crime.
No foul language. No graphic content.
Just human motives, cold truths, and a landscape that both shelters and betrays the people who call it home.

The Deputy’s First Winter

Whispering Pines, Wyoming—Year 2000.
A...

A missing teacher. A frightened colleague. A town where silence is survival.
Welcome back to Whispering Pines—where every year hides a secret, and every secret comes with a cost.

When fifth-grade teacher Lydia Barnes unlocks her classroom early one winter morning, she notices something small—something no one else would have questioned. Her...

THE HARVEST WIDOW
A Whispering Pines Mystery
Whispering Pines: 24 Years, 24 Secrets — Book Three

In the fall of 2002, harvest season arrives in Whispering Pines the way it always does—dusty fields, long days, and the steady hum of machinery moving across land worked by the same families for generations.

Then Marie Dalton’s husband is found dead...

RIVER THAW
Whispering Pines: 24 Years, 24 Secrets — Book Four
By TRUDY MYRLAND

When the ice breaks, the past doesn’t stay buried.

Spring arrives late in Whispering Pines. Snow still clings to the banks. The river runs high, fast, and unforgiving—carrying with it everything winter tried to hide.

Seventeen-year-old Brady Holt is fishing the familiar...

Bride in the Pines
A Whispering Pines Mystery: 24 Years, 24 Secrets — Book Five
By Trudy Myrland

In Whispering Pines, weddings are meant to bind families, steady old grudges, and reassure a town that life is still moving forward.

This one never happens.

On a clear early-summer morning in 2004, a bride vanishes just hours before her ceremony—no...

Book 6 in the Whispering Pines Mystery Series
24 Years. 24 Secrets.
One town that never forgets—no matter how hard it tries.

On a quiet night in Whispering Pines, every dog in town began to bark.

Not one yard. Not one street.
All of them.

For fifteen long minutes, the town listened.

By morning, everyone agreed it had meant nothing.

They were wrong.

The...

The Fire Line
Whispering Pines: 24 Years, 24 Secrets — Book 7

Fire never starts loud.
It waits.

In the quiet mountain town of Whispering Pines, smoke is noticed before sirens ever sound. By the time help arrives, a barn is already burning—and the man inside it is already dead. Officials call it an accident. The town is eager to believe them.

But...

When the windstorm tore through Whispering Pines, it left fallen trees, blocked roads, and a town eager for something—or someone—to blame.

By morning, one man hadn’t come home.

At first, the explanation was easy. The terrain was dangerous. The weather had been unpredictable. Accidents happened out here. Everyone knew that. Storms took things....

In the mountain town of Whispering Pines, some places are never meant to be found.

When traveling nurse Dana Kline takes an unfamiliar back road between patient visits, she expects nothing more than a rough shortcut. Instead, the road narrows, the land shifts, and an abandoned slate quarry appears where it shouldn’t—silent, deep, and waiting. At...